Post As9knpXRcXJVsVARhA by GinevraCat@toot.community
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 (DIR) Post #As9iGUkxfOsLxXSzvk by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-03-17T19:44:34Z
       
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       I grew up in Ohio, in school we learned next to nothing about the ancient people of the region and I know more about earthworks like this in the UK than I do about the one that was not that far from where I lived. That is to some degree by design. So, I'm delighted that Milo choose this topic. Also, we "shrunken heads" at the local natural history museum on a *school* field trip (which makes it sound like I grew up in the 1880s not the 1980s)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaKrSgBkFHQ
       
 (DIR) Post #As9ifzTwZDfKUafEP2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-03-17T19:49:10Z
       
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       I also vividly remember a first grade teacher making us sing "ten little Indians" she was not a very nice woman. I think my mom and some other parents talked to her about it and her response was to make us do it at the school assembly. Like even in first grade I knew that song was... bad.
       
 (DIR) Post #As9kf6PxUisBccVKPw by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
       2025-03-17T20:11:22Z
       
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       @futurebird Here in Minnesota; the private grade school that I attended did teach us a little bit about the Mississippian mounds.But they did not teach us about the Dakota Wars or about how there was once an internment camp on the island in the river down the hill.The public junior high did a better job.
       
 (DIR) Post #As9knpXRcXJVsVARhA by GinevraCat@toot.community
       2025-03-17T20:12:56Z
       
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       @futurebird Wow!
       
 (DIR) Post #As9y7n9JVo65fDjGoS by swacknificent@fosstodon.org
       2025-03-17T22:42:15Z
       
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       @futurebird My mom was a teacher back when they had more leeway regarding their own curriculum, and was responsible for teaching about American Indians, so did teach about the Mound Builders and took me to see the earthworks, which was pretty cool.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsA76SA0xeg7rmUf0i by jbcrail@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T00:22:47Z
       
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       @futurebird I grew up on the outskirts of the core area of the Hopewell culture (Cincinnati metro) and have been to Newark a few times.I was fortunate to have a 6th grade teacher during the late 1980s who taught us about indigenous culture throughout the continent, took us to local indigenous sites, and corrected the received cultural and historical inaccuracies. She was easily the most kind and impactful teacher I've had and was a clear exception on this topic from that time period.